Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis